The Religious and Military Patriarchate of St. Stephen,
Old Holy Roman Church of the English Rite, is an
ancient, autonomous, semi-autocephalous Imperial Old Roman Catholic
Patriarchate with Anglican patrimony descended from the Roman
Catholic See of Utrecht. The See of Utrecht has remained independent
since 1145, when the Holy See in Rome granted autonomy. Modernly
known as the Anglican Rite Roman Catholic Church (ARRCC), the
Patriarchate is faithful to the magisterium of eternal Rome and the
eternal One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church. Although
administratively independent, the See embraces as brethren other
Catholic and Anglican bodies, such as the current Roman Communion
(commonly referred to as the Roman Catholic Church), the Anglican
Ordinariate, and the Anglican Communion.